But I've not run into any jerks frequently enough to notice. The feed is easy to curate, so I don't have to deal with political shit since I just don't scroll through the "all" equivalent feed unless I'm really bored. Even then, I've seen less toxicity the entire time I've been on mastodon (a couple of years, irc?) than I would in a week of Twitter or a single day on reddit.

I'm sure it's there, don't get me wrong. I'm just thinking it's an exaggerated perception based on how people use it rather than being indicative of the user base as a whole. Shit, on my author account, the whole writing and book community is wholesome as fuck. Supportive, friendly, helpful. It's fucking awesome.

[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

Same situation, for the most part. I was, however, originally on an arts & crafts server that had to shut down because the admin was being bullied by the folks over at .art, so I have seen a bit of the nonsense.

Seems like most people on there are just normal nice people, but unfortunately as in the real world being awful gets you attention and power and disproportionally affects the reputation of your server, platform, state, country, etc.

There's also a ton of crossover, again as in the real world but also as on Lemmy and everywhere else, between people who obsess over politics and this kind of toxic behaviour. So I think in having most of that filtered out we kill two birds with one stone.

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